т. Sklyansky!

Now let me encrypt it archiocautiously, taking the original with me, and send it to Smilga to stand at the machine and personally decrypt it.

[ To the Commander-in-Chief ]

Stalin will send it to Ordzhonikidze himself.

So triple and extreme caution. Under your responsibility.

14.11.

Lenin.

Return all this.

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Again and again, I ask you to strictly lay on the conspiracy and check it yourself in person.

Published (v. 17244) - The Trotsky papers. 1917 - 1922. V. II, p.376.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 17244, 17245 - autograph.

1* S.S.Kamenev.

1The notes refer to the measures to ensure strict secrecy when sending to I.T.Smilga and G.K.Ordzhonikidze the directives of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) on the participation of the XI Army in the establishment of Soviet power in Georgia.

Directives of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) of February 14 and 15, 1921 see: Lenin V.I. Complete Collected Works, vol. 52, с. 71.